Oh, Fer Cute

September 16, 2007

Scenes from a march

Really, you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day than yesterday, down in D.C. Number of protestors was wildly underestimated (SURPRISE!), and several of us got into verbal fisticuffs with a "wars give me a hard-on" wingnut who accosted Thers while he was walking along peacefully with the youngest of his brood on his back.

"You want us to LOOOOSE!" he kept yelling.

"So define 'victory' for me," I challenged him.

"I'll know it when I see it," he replied.

So there you have it. War is the same as obscenity.

And now some happy snaps:

Pooches for Peace.

You know you're in trouble when Bush makes Nixon look goooood.

We're all about the cooperative effort. This teenager is the best. My hat is off to his mom, TJ, who was also in attendance. (And SP, the little 'un, was entertaining the crowd by cooing into a microphone at the wingnuts across the street. It was teh funny.)

See? I was really there.

[I am contractually obligated to give a promotional shout out to Sinfonian, who served as photographer for this snap.]

Comments

Now that the protest is over. 190 people were arested. And I assume none of the politicians were really listening (no one I know has received a response from his/her congresscritter) it's time to start a real protest. Hit em where it hurts. Their wallets. Shut It Down
Was started to put a real end to the war and hopefully change the direction of this country. Feel free to link to the site. And no I won't take donations. This is real folks and people are dying. It's time to stop it,

I like one of the suggestions at the Pax Americana link, and I would expand on it thusly: Have some "Freeper Bloggers" marching along with their flags and their bags of Cheetos, carrying banners to the effect that "Warbloggers Rawk" and "Operation Iraqi Freedom Begins in My Mom's Basement."

The BBC World News coverage was really crappy yesterday. It said there were anti-war and pro-war rallies in Washington DC, which just goes to show how divided Americans are on the issue. It wasn't till I read the AP report this morning that I read the antiwar demo was estimated at 100,000 and the pro-war as "up to 1,000". You'd never have known it from the Beeb.

Very good parent to take the wee one to a protest. My mama took me to the anti-war protests during the Vietnam era and they've made me a radical for life. May we all bring our young ones into the fold early to foment the next wave of revolutionaries!